What's to say about Coromandel Town? The only excitement was when we nearly ran someone over. Cliff was only driving at about 30km per hour and this teenage girl ran out backwards into the road, right in front of us. I'm glad to report that Cliff's reactions were fast and the brakes worked. And a lady at the side of the road (completely unrelated to the girl) waved her thanks to us. And that was pretty much it for excitement, it's another one-road town and it starting raining again when we got to the camp site. To be fair, Coromandel Town used to be a main port serving the gold mining and kauri industries and today it's mainly tourism and mussel farming. You often see stalls set up by local schools or groups raising money by selling mussel fritters (or hot dogs).
We had the communal kitchen to ourselves, the majority of the people that turned up later were in large RVs. These have their own kitchens and WCs so are pretty anti-social really. At least by using the communal kitchens you get to meet people and have a chat. For example at both Waihi and Hot Water Beaches we met up with the same lovely couple from Manchester who were on their extended honeymoon.
It was still raining heavily the next morning when we left to head south towards Thames.
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